SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 19, 2011

Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars Space Daily In 2007, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found planetary disks of debris around twin stars, indicating rocky planets may have formed in those systems. The Kepler spacetelescope searches for transiting planets by measuring dips in the brightness of more... See all stories on this topic » Space Daily

Hubble Finds Supermassive Black Holes In Small Galaxies iWeather Online By Mark Dunphy - Sun Sep 18, 9:13 pm While scanning the distant universe, NASA'sHubble Space Telescope observed found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. NASA scientists say the findings suggest that central black holes ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

James Webb Space Telescope Q&A Session: A Town Hall Webinar Space Ref (press release) Eric Smith is the JWST Deputy Program Director at NASA Headquarters. Prior to that, he served as the JWST Deputy Project Scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Roberto Abraham is a professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the ... See all stories on this topic »

Cape Fear High students find asteroid, name it for school Fayetteville Observer Astronomers use measurements taken by the students and others to determine the likelihood of an asteroid impacting Earth. "It adds a little bit of spice to the proceedings," said Miranda Friel, a senior in Devore's astronomy class. ... See all stories on this topic »

Of proto- [and exo-] planets. And falling satellites… Slugger O'Toole And as Asimov's great story of the psychology of light reveals, so are astronomy and art. In Raphael's painting the Mond crucifixion, a personified sun and moon divide the sky between them. Two suns, or six, would not just mean a more crowded painting, ... See all stories on this topic »

Doomsday Comet Elenin Goes Out With A Whimper Science 2.0 The Asgardians were a little more forgiving in their astronomy, so the Apocalypse could be tomorrow or any time over the next 150 years. What apparently will not happen is that Comet Elenin will have anything to do with it. Once rumored to be ending ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Concepts for the Next NASA X-ray Astronomy Mission Space Ref (press release) Through this Request for Information (RFI), NASA is seeking information relevant to an X-rayastronomy mission concept or mission concepts that will satisfy some or all the scientific objectives listed in Table 1. The RFI also requests standalone ... See all stories on this topic »

Did Humankind Benefit from Alien Technologies? Canadian National Newspaper Smith and Boyle's apparatus allows extremely faint images to be recorded, which is very useful in astronomy. Today, its most noticeable impact is in digital cameras, which rely on CCD arrays containing millions of pixels. ... See all stories on this topic » Canadian National Newspaper

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NASA JWST Funding Space News reports. “The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill Sept. 15 that would cut NASA's budget by 2.5 percent while boosting spending on the massively overbudget James Webb Space Telescope...” ... scientists, officials and space enthusiasts lobbied to finish the project, saying $3 billion has already been spent -- money that would be wasted if the telescope is never finished. (Image source: NASA). Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson went on Real ... Newsy Headlines

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NASA goes back to the future…again : Space and Astronomy news ... NASA HAS SELECTED THE DESIGN of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create ... spaceinfo.com.au/2011/.../nasa-goes-back-to-the-future…agai...

Media Opportunity With NASA's Sofia During Washington Stopover ... NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a highly ... To allow time for check-in and transportation to the aircraft hangar, news ... Infrared observations are optimal for studying low-temperature objects in space such as ... www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112383867/.../index.html

NASA SPACE NEWS: Space Farm 7 and NASA: A Corn Maze ... 5:03 AM Gabriella Brianna , Posted in NASA News , 0 Comments. Space Farm 7 is a celebration ofNASA's space, science and exploration programs that .... Universe Astronomy Moon Milky Way Planet Earth Satellite Space Telescope Galaxy ... spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/.../space-farm-7-and-nasa-co...

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